New Zealand's Software Patents Debate on Television

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2011-08-12 18:09:46 UTC
Modified: 2011-08-12 18:09:46 UTC

Summary: Don Christie of Catalyst IT confronts a non-practising pundit ('IP' person/patent lawyer) over the issue of software patents

We were hoping to get hold of the video and we finally did, thanks to Benjamin Henrion who uploaded it. Here it is in YouTube (which now has WebM versions of most videos, although it's in testing one must opt in for).

For more information, also see our page about software patents in New Zealand. ⬆

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